Injustice Quotes - Page 21

• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Night, Light

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• We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

  Hugo Claus

  Wake Up, Each Day, World

  Hugo Claus (2009). “Wonder”

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• If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community.
  'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.

  Michael Sandel

  Good Life, Writing, Mean

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• If there is no truth, there is no injustice.

  Norman Geras

  Ifs

  Norman Geras (1995). “Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty”, p.107, Verso

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• It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Artist, Creative, Impossible

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• You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.

  Otep Shamaya

  Thinking, Speaks Out, Oil

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• Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Fighting, Arms

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Frustration, World

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2004). “Spurgeon's Sermons on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus”, p.294, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

  James J. Corbett

  Justice, Community, Individual

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• Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

  Mariano Azuela

  Heart, Government, Rascals

  Mariano Azuela (1956). “Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies. The Bosses”, p.110, Univ of California Press

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• The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Happiness, Being Happy, Morning

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• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  Victoria Moran

  Animal, Soul, Ladders

  Victoria Moran, Adair Moran (2012). “Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World”, p.14, Penguin

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• It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

  William H. Wharton

  Government, Texas, Confusion

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• Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Crush, Difficult Situations, People

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah

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• A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Noble, Spirit, Forget

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 441, 1856.

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• The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Children, Powerful, School

  "Zimbabwe tycoon says he refused massive bribe demands in building his African business empire". www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, America, Majority

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 6”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

  Camille Paglia

  Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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• We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Evil, Faces

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• By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Trials, Favors

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.134, Sounds True

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• Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
  If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter.
  If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother.
  If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

  Gary Haugen

  Passion, Endurance, Needs

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• The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

  Leon Kass

  Animal, Social, Humans

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